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One other very worthwhile feature of *The Very Best of Gene Wolfe* is the 7,500 word Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brilliant appreciation of GW, perhaps the finest yet. …
22 May 2009, 07:13
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As John Barach says, the anthology *Other Earths*, edted by yours truly and Jay Lake, due out on April 9 as a mass market paperback from DAW Books, contains a new story by Gene Wol…
12 Mar 2009, 06:37
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Gardner Dozois told me Gene Wolfe turned down the invitation to contribute to the Dying Earth anthology--no reason given. A pity, remembering how brilliant Wolfe's contribution was…
19 Sep 2007, 05:46
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I notice Bruce Trinque, noted Patrick O'Brian scholar and afficianado, has joined the Urth list. Welcome, Bruce! It'd be interesting to hear how you compare POB and GW... --Nick G…
08 Apr 2007, 07:45
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It appears the April 2007 number of *The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction* will be a special Gene Wolfe issue, with: "Memorare", a new Wolfe novella Critical essay by Michael…
16 Dec 2006, 21:01
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It'll be interesting to see what people think of Wolfe's main female character in *Soldier of Sidon*, the "singing girl" Myt'sereu, who is prone to drinking and promiscuity. There'…
19 Oct 2006, 07:40
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Just arrived here, via Fedex, an advance reading copy of SOLDIER OF SIDON. Dedicated to Sir Richard Burton; epigraph from Herodotus; usual mock-scholarly Foreword; 319 pages; chapt…
05 Jun 2006, 11:38
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Mimosa, hi. SOLDIER OF SIDON is the third Latro novel, following directly on from SOLDIER OF THE MIST and SOLDIER OF ARETE. --Nick Gevers. --- silk tree <albizia at feafaroth.org> …
27 Apr 2003, 21:10
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Concerning the publication date of SOLDIER OF SIDON: don't expect it before 2005. THE KNIGHT and THE WIZARD come first... --Nick Gevers.…
27 Apr 2003, 20:49
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Moshe Feder at Tor indicates that GW's next collection is scheduled for June 2004, and will now be titled, not WRAITHS, WAIFS, AND WOLVES, but INNOCENTS ABOARD. Oh dear. --Nick Ge…
19 Feb 2003, 07:17
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Moshe Feder at Tor indicates that GW's next collection is scheduled for June 2004, and will now be titled, not WRAITHS, WAIFS, AND WOLVES, but INNOCENTS ABOARD. Oh dear. --Nick Ge…
19 Feb 2003, 07:17
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SPOILER SPACE Rich Horton re "Castaway": "Do you think the world was actually Earth? Or was the castaway remembering lost Earth somehow?" The world was Earth, I'm prett…
10 Jan 2003, 09:09
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I concede that listing 5HC as part of the Briah Cycle is an experimental proposition, but if it leads to a fuller understanding of Wolfe's baroque/SF oeuvre--and it should, for rea…
12 Apr 2002, 03:29
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Michael Straight: yes, the Urth/Lune pairing is less important than the other two, and I certainly don't believe they are the same worlds as Blue and Green--too much textual gerrym…
12 Apr 2002, 03:08
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Thanks to Andy Robertson and Robert Borski for that Mahes information--my understanding of the story is deepened... More forthcoming story info: "The Lost Pilgrim", mentioned in t…
24 Feb 2002, 06:58
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John: Briefly, SHADOWS OF THE NEW SUN is a new collection of Wolfe's essays, apparently edited by Peter Wright, and ATTENDING DAEDALUS is Wright's own critical study of Wolfe's wor…
07 Feb 2002, 09:59
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I mentioned "Pocketsful of Diamonds" onlist last year, very briefly. A good story--I tend to be guided in assessing these short Wolfe tales by the strength of their style; "The Wal…
18 Oct 2001, 05:03
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No, it's not Wolfe. You're referring to Michael Swanwick's rather brilliant short story "Radiant Doors" (1998). --Nick Gevers. --- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.co…
31 Aug 2001, 05:53
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Mora isn't travelling astrally in the same manner as Horn--she's doing, with or without Fava, what Mucor does, possessing others. Perhaps Fava facilitates this, but I suspect the t…
23 Apr 2001, 06:00
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Dan Parmenter: interesting point about JOURNEY TO THE WEST, which we know of course influenced Cordwainer Smith very strongly. But then GW denies being influenced by Cordwainer Smi…
11 Apr 2001, 01:11
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--- Nil_Ultra <Nil_Ultra at email.msn.com> wrote: > Has anyone heard anything about the book "Taps and As far as I know, Wolfe's contribution to TAPS AND SIGHS (a very expensive limi…
04 Aug 2000, 08:33
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Why not order from online booksellers, specifically amazon.co.uk or www.bookshop.co.uk? ASH would be reasonably inexpensive by that route... --- Nil_Ultra <Nil_Ultra at email.msn.com…
27 Jul 2000, 23:15
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More likely, by giving themselves to the inhumi, humans would see to it that the sentience the inhumi imbibed was of a benign, self-sacrificial flavour--a means of rendering the in…
08 Jul 2000, 23:32
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More likely, by giving themselves to the inhumi, humans would see to it that the sentience the inhumi imbibed was of a benign, self-sacrificial flavour--a means of rendering the in…
08 Jul 2000, 23:32
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I'm another of the fortunate (or damnable) few, and I'm also eager to begin the discussion. In the dwindling meantime, let me ask you this, Yves: do you now know why there was no g…
09 Jun 2000, 23:53
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The redoubtable alga set out to provide the URL for my essays on THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN, but the text she was using doesn't seem to have been html-friendly (if that's the right t…
05 May 2000, 00:54
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Alga, the joke is a golfing one, referring to the (once) brilliant Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros.…
25 Apr 2000, 09:04
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Inire, LITANY collects NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN and LAKE OF THE LONG SUN. A later Orb volume, EPIPHANY OF THE LONG SUN, will contain CALDE and EXODUS.…
29 Mar 2000, 00:51
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--- Jesper Svedberg Tastes differ; and compare the Millennium cover art to the Sword & Sorcery bilge on the Orb cover! As for the Millennium text and format: the hardcover text t…
25 Mar 2000, 23:27
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Just a small note on the Wolfe/Calvino issue: IN GREEN'S JUNGLES, which I'll shortly start reading, seems to have a strong Italianate bias--evidence perhaps of Calvino's influence.…
22 Feb 2000, 11:48
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It was Jim Burns, who should have stuck to Majipoor.…
07 Feb 2000, 02:42
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Entering the very intriguing debate on "The Ziggurat": after having read the novella inconclusively back in 1996, I reread it in the context of STRANGE TRAVELERS, partly because I …
30 Jan 2000, 21:39
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The only character in LONG SUN other than Silk who is clearly a grown special embryo is Mucor (thus her adoption by Blood, and her special powers). Chenille was the natural daughte…
20 Jan 2000, 21:30
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For me, the similarity of "1-2-3" and "And When They Appear" relates simply to the notion of cultural suicide: after all, the wealthy elite in "And When" clearly has ample technolo…
16 Jan 2000, 00:22
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The chess analogy arises in "To the Seventh", a story I found problematic in various ways. Nutria, do you think God's shifting of focus to another part of the board near the end wi…
09 Jan 2000, 21:25
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Allegedly, Columbus pulled off the eclipse trick on the inhabitants of Jamaica in 1504--a fact that may have influenced both Herge and Wolfe in their portrayals of neo-Inca folk be…
08 Oct 1999, 11:34
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Answers to the below: Wolfe quit PLANT ENGINEERING in 1984. And the story including the interesting architecture and the Mexican invasion was "The Haunted Boardinghouse", in WALLS …
30 Sep 1999, 15:48
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In response to Ori Kowarsky's recent defence of his non-Christian reading of the Urth Cycle: eloquently argued, Ori, but I detect a major inconsistency in your posting. Initially, …
29 Apr 1999, 05:01
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I very much like Dan Rabin's reading of the uturuncu as Inire. But I think we encounter Inire directly much earlier, in Chapter XXI of CLAW: "[The Autarch} clapped his hands, and a…
21 Apr 1999, 06:44
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